he needed to redress the balance from the media morons and their agenda filled nonsense...
I'd also prefer a Chair with higher media profile to promote Villa's cause to break away from this theory the West Midlands is the black hole of Football. We need to promote ourselves and its something the club has never been any use at, even in the heady days of the European Cup and I feel it would be nice to change that.
When you only get one side of the story, as was the case when MON left, it's only right that the other side have the right to defend themselves. The level of talking down of Aston Villa, Randy Lerner and the investment made to date was ridiculous, not to mention "sell to buy" assault had to be addressed. I think the General made some very clear points regarding what our economic policy is, why it is necessary to offload players on high wages that are never to be included in the team and most importantly how that money should be going to the players that actually deserve it. As for the quote about MON thinking he's bigger than the Club, fair play to him, if that's how he sees it, why not call it. O'Neill has done us no favours in the way he left, not just abandoning the team 5 days before the season starts but taking with him his coaches, fitness coach, goalkeeping coach and Head Scout. It wasn't an attack on Randy Lerner, it was an attempt to destroy Aston Villa and dare I say, enhance his reputation when everything fell apart.Finally, any potential manager reading the press over the last week would have probably thought Aston Villa were in a mess and as a few pundits pointed out, a terrible place to manage. Maybe we could have sat back and let the football do the talking but sometimes it's necessary to stand up and defend yourself when somebody tries to give you a kicking.